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a dusting of dried grass on the crest of a hill
painted in thumbed-through grays
trees gnarled like cinched-up faces
and knotted muscles.
flowers breathe gently, steadily
and some kind of leftover love, torn
from years of neglect.
rooted fingers grow through, over,
around a ribcage under...

Remember that walls are thin, then remember
that when you open your lips
and let the guilt pour out,
not everyone will sympathize.
Hunger for them is a noise coming from their own bellies.
Not yours on a mall escalator when you
were eight.
When she says she has a splitting
headache try
...

Em and Ryan are doing fine
but we’ve missed you here.
I’m sorry I’m forgetting you.
And the farm, that’s almost gone too.
And all that remains of the rainbow of bears
is the purple and red, tumbled
in the avalanche of fur and cotton in the closet.
The thick purple knit you made
...

Lift the cover—November’s cider light
tumbles onto the crisp crackle of dry leaves
and huge green leathery ones to be held with both hands.
Others brittle like insect legs
in a stack that smells of brown paper and worms
your hands red and dusty from clutching tree bark
and then you drop ...

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